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...that time, Herms says he threw packets of nicotine chewing gum to protestors since they were unable to smoke inside of Mass. Hall...
...into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from smoke detectors, thorium from Coleman lanterns, deadly radium from the glow-in-the-dark paint used on the hands of vintage clocks. For sheer improvisational ingenuity, Hahn makes MacGyver look like Jessica Simpson. When public-health officials finally caught on to what Hahn was up to, the potting shed...
...confiscate Iraqi weapons, they destroy them on an abandoned range. After the SF’s collected a cartload of AK47’s, Stern was allowed to explode the weapons with a remote control bomb. “I’d see a cloud of smoke and then I’d hear the explosion,” Stern says. He was ultimately responsible for nine such bombings. Although being a student is a far cry from occupying a country, bits of Baghdad have been seeping into Stern’s life at Harvard. Even...
...been a tough year for the Jews. Mel Gibson set off anti-Semitic smoke alarms with his film The Passion of the Christ. Judith Steinberg Dean let herself be trotted out before the voters just in time to see her husband's presidential campaign implode. And the first fully reconceived Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof since the 1964 original has been faulted for ethnic blandness. Writing in the Los Angeles Times before the show opened, author Thane Rosenbaum (The Golems of Gotham) criticized the show for "an absence of Jewish soul...
...moon and then Mars, without new taxes. But many essential services are being cut while the federal budget deficit balloons. The Administration's neocon advisers want to build an American empire without asking citizens to support it with more revenue. The White House plans to achieve it with smoke and mirrors. The President is overdrawn. BILL MITTLEFEHLDT Anoka, Minn...